A hacker and a vigilante hacked and defaced the now defuncted Utah Valley University (UVU) website learningstyles.uvu.edu in 2019 and 2020.
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My op-ed, U. of U.’s ransomware attack is a wake-up call to Utah education, parents, published in the Deseret News today.
The average total compensation (salary and benefits) of a cybersecurity professional working in Utah higher education is $100,631 in 2019.
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94% of Utah K-12 school districts do not have any dedicated cybersecurity professionals according to a survey of 35 school districts.
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Hackers infiltrated a website operated by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) for the National Standard Race (NASTAR) but ultimately did not take any significant adverse actions.
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The political election campaign of Tom Sakievich responded quickly to remove “malvertising” malware from their website this past week after I discovered and reported the hack.
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University Of Utah Health announced Friday afternoon another data breach taking place at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is their second health breach this year due to phishing.
Continue readingUtah Valley University (UVU) removed two websites with 17-year-old critical vulnerabilities after the UtahCyberCheck found and reported them.
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Many security professionals rely on Zeek for network security monitoring. But the question keeps coming up—How to decrypt traffic using Zeek?
Continue readingIn a feat of resiliency, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) migrated a service then decommissioned a vulnerable server during the COVID-19 pandemic after the UtahCyberCheck project found a critical vulnerability.
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